The Critical Request
Using resource priorities to improve the speed of delivery. A great article that covers not just the approach to prioritising the right assets, but also how you can dig into the Dev Tools to find out what to prioritise.
Serving a website seems pretty simple: Send some HTML, the browser figures out what resources to load next. Then we wait patiently for the page to be ready.
Little may you know, a lot is going on under the hood.
Have you ever wondered how browser figures out which assets should be requested and in what order?
Today we’re going to take a look at how we can use resource priorities to improve the speed of delivery.
An excerpt from The Critical Request
